First Week Trekking West

We left home on July 5, 2015 and traveled to High Falls State Park for our first night. We always enjoy the Georgia state parks. On Monday morning we headed through Atlanta toward Birmingham. 

     High Falls

We enjoyed eating at Buckners. A family style restaurant. 

Noticed this in the parking lot..

Our next stop was a weeks stay at a Corps of Engineer campground near Tuscaloosa, AL.  Deerlick Corps of Engineer campground. It was a beautiful park with a nice concrete pad, firering, and table. Our site was no 11. 

      Evening dinner over a fire. 

Stroll with the Boston Brigade. 

On Saturday, July 11, we drove on Hyw 82, a bumpy road I might add, through Mississippi. 

Bridge over the Mississippi 

     Mississippi River 

We spent the night at Chicot Lake County Park. It was a beautiful lake, actually it use to be the Mississippi until they built a dyke,  and we were able to have the lake out our back window. I enjoyed dragging our chairs out near the lakes edge. It was very peaceful. The trees were large walnut trees. I reminisced about a poem I had learned many years ago; Trees by Joyce Kilmer

Trees

I think that I shall never see  
A poem lovely as a tree.  

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest  
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,  
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear  
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.  

Poems are made by fools like me,  
But only God can make a tree.

by Joyce Kilmer

Here is a little Robin I watched. 

This was a lovely spot. 

July 12. Heading to Crater of Diamond State Park near Mufreesboro, AR.